Sleepless night!

On this night, Ye Jun summarized the places to be reformed, including how to reform, and combined some experiences of later generations.

The methods of later generations may not be copied, but many detours can be avoided.

The Ming Dynasty emphasized literature over military force, which is absolutely not okay.

There is no strong country that does not respect the military.

Another point, Ye Jun thought about it for a long time and found that the biggest problem in the Ming Dynasty was not the system, not the literati, but poverty!

Is Daming poor?

Poor!

Very poor!

Even the emperor Ye Jun, the inner treasury only had more than one million taels of silver. This is still left by the emperors of previous dynasties.

Are the people of the Ming Dynasty poor? Also poor! Yangzhou skinny horses abound.

But Daming is the world's first power today, whether it is economy, civilization, or science and technology, it is the world's first. How can you be so poor?

Because, the money is in the pockets of a small group of people.

These people are the gentry!

In Daming, as long as you are famous, you don't have to pay taxes. On the face of it, it's nothing for a scholar not to pay taxes. However, many people take advantage of this loophole and attach their fields to the names of scholars to evade taxes.

In the Hongwu years, there were 850 million mu of land paid by the Ming Dynasty, and 30 million quintals of grain could be collected every year. Lao Zhu felt that it was enough to have so much and was very satisfied, so he ordered that he would never be able to do it. However, in the Chenghua period, in just one hundred years, the land paid by the Ming Dynasty was reduced to 420 million mu, which was half less.

If there is less land, there will naturally be less taxes, and gradually, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, taxes will be even less. Emperor Shenzong had to open the mining tax to support the inner treasury. In this way, Daming can also hold on to it so-so. But in the hands of Chongzhen, the first thing he did when he ascended the throne was to abolish the mining tax. Now it's okay, there is no money in his pocket, nothing can be done, and Daming can only sit and wait for destruction.

When Chongzhen is the emperor, isn't he diligent? It can be said that except for Zhu Yuanzhang, there is no one more diligent than Chongzhen. However, it is also a dead end if you are diligent and have no money. It can be said that Chongzhen died poor. How poor is it? Even the queen and concubines took out their jewelry and sold it to support the country.

If Chongzhen is rich and a lot of silver is scattered, can the Ming Dynasty lose the country? First of all, it is impossible for Li Zicheng to rebel, and the Jiannu outside the gate will be beaten, and his parents don't know him. But there is no money, the officers and soldiers are hungry, the generals are paid empty salaries, and there is no combat effectiveness, how can they fight?

Therefore, if the country wants to be strong, make money first!

And in whose hands is Daming's money? In the hands of the gentry, the merchants.

I didn't see that people are known as rich and rival the country, can they buy Daming?

So, if you want to get rich, you must first collect taxes.

Put up the taxes that should be collected, and the court will naturally have money. If you have money, it's easy to do things.

Therefore, the first thing to do is to collect taxes.

Seeing that it was dawn, Ye Jun's eyes flashed with a gleam, and he got up and said, "Go to court!" ”

Above the court, civil and military officials are arranged in turn.

"If you have something to do, you have nothing to do!" Lao Cao only has such a sentence every time he goes to court.

The ministers lowered their heads and were silent.

Since Zhu ignored the killing, the ministers have smelled the smell, and they have all been very low-key during this time, for fear of touching their brows. The young emperor in front of him is not the same as the gentle first emperor, he even killed his own uncle, what are they. So, I'd rather have nothing to do than much to do.

Suddenly, a voice sounded: "The minister has something to do!" ”

The ministers suddenly raised their heads, looked for prestige, and were stunned: Who is this person?

Many people looked at each other, and they all saw the doubts in each other's eyes. Is there such a person in the court?

"It seems to be Wang Shouren!"

"Wang Hua's son?" Someone remembered something and said in surprise: "Didn't Wang Hua have already been transferred to Nanjing for retirement?" His son also went to Guizhou, when did he come back? ”

The ministers raised their heads, and suddenly met the emperor's smiling eyes, and they all shrank their necks. It seems that the emperor secretly summoned Wang Shouren to Beijing, but I don't know why? There was a faint bad feeling in the hearts of the ministers, this Wang Shouren had a perverse personality and acted unscrupulously back then, and this time I am afraid that he will provoke something wrong.

Wang Shouren said: "The minister is ashamed, and he wants to dedicate the land to the emperor!" ”

Dedication?

The ministers are confused, is the emperor still short of land?

Ye Jun's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said with a smile: "Yangming, let's hear it!" ”

That's right, this Wang Shouren is the famous Wang Yangming. Ye Jun deliberately recalled him back to Beijing as a pawn.

Wang Yangming said: "During the Taizu period, Daming had 850 million mu of land, but now, only 420 million mu remains, less than half. After three years out of Beijing, the minister finally recovered the lost 430 million acres of land for Daming, and came to dedicate it to the emperor! ”

As soon as these words came out, a bad premonition welled up in the hearts of the ministers.

Sure enough, he listened to Wang Shouren continue: "The minister found that the Ming squires did not need to pay taxes, so they had a large number of acres of land, which were attached to the names of the squires in an anonymous way, and never paid taxes. ”

"Bastard!"

"Nonsense!"

"Wang Yangming, what do you want to do?"

At this moment, the entire imperial court exploded.

The ministers were furious, and many people rushed over directly to block Wang Yangming's mouth.

However, Wang Yangming is not easy to bully, not only is he younger than this group of guys, but he is also able to write and martial arts, and after beating a few people with three punches and two feet, no one dared to step forward anymore.

"Interesting!" Ye Jun smiled, "Yangming, you go on!" ”

Wang Yangming said: "The minister thinks, since these fields are not registered and have not paid taxes, they must all be ownerless and should be nationalized!" ”

"The minister is against!"

Immediately, a minister jumped out, glared at Wang Yangming fiercely, and said: "Taizu once said that scholars can be exempted from paying taxes, and now, raiding the fields of scholars and squires everywhere, isn't it against the ancestral teachings?" ”

"Taizu said that scholars are exempt from taxes, but he didn't say that scholars can evade taxes." Wang Yangming sneered, "Scholars are exempt from taxes, according to the law, they can be exempted as many acres as they should be, but now, the people below, even if they are an ordinary person, have thousands of acres of land under their names, and they are also exempt from taxes in their names, isn't this digging the foundation of the imperial court?" Nowadays, the imperial court's tax revenue is getting smaller and smaller year by year, and the land tax accounts for seventy-five percent, if this continues, sooner or later, not a single acre of land will be taxed. ”

"Even if it is attached, it is the people's land, and the most tax is paid, if the land is forcibly confiscated, is it not robbing the people's property, and how is it different from robbers?" Someone else retorted.

"Who knows how many years they have been evading taxes? According to the law, tax evasion is a capital offense. If they want the land, they can come out and claim it, and first deal with the crime of tax evasion according to the law. As soon as Wang Yangming said this, no one dared to speak.

Want a field? Okay! Chop off your head first and then give you back the field, do you want it?